Red Hot Chili Peppers - I’m With You Review

Red says: 'The band was destroyed by drug abuse, and lost a member to a heroin overdose in 1988. Since then, most of the members have come back from the brink and in 1998, they produced Californication; a stand out album that reassured old fans and attracted new ones.

But since that career high, the band hasnt been able to achieve a repeat performance. And the new album, Im With You is disappointing. With a new guitarist, Josh Klinghoffer, the album does have some great moments  Look Ahead and Happiness Loved Company have seriously catchy choruses and uplifting hooks, making it irresistible not to turn it up and press repeat. Brendans Death Song is a powerfully emotive song, written about the death of long standing friend of the band. The song works though grief in a compassionate, heartfelt way.

But all tracks enlist a repetition that can make the whole record sound like one long guitar heavy track, which at best produces climatic choruses and at worst, just drones. The shouty vocals and extended guitar solos are not the sounds of an energetic exciting band; it is all too familiar and uninspiring.'

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